Recording Studio
Clearwater studios can deliver your project quickly and at an affordable budget.
Our friendly in-house engineer/producer Dave Macfarlane has several years’ experience working in a range of genres as an engineer/producer and songwriter/arranger and can deliver great sounding results quickly and easily. He is also proficient various instruments including fiddle(violin), mandolin and guitar/bass guitar, and can contribute instrumental parts and arrangement as part of the session if required
you can check out his website here to see some of his previous work.
Services
We can tailor recording sessions to your needs, whether you want just mixing/mastering of pre-recorded tracks, or require full production of a finished product EP/album we can help. For outside engineers or bands that would like to produce themselves, you have the option of taking the multitracks away with you on a hard drive to mix at home.
Booking
Please call Dave on 07742 525 546 or email david.macfarlane9@gmail.com to discuss your requirements and get a quotation.
Studio Specs:
2 live rooms, plus smaller booth beside control room
Dual-monitor Mac Pro
Avid I/O – up to 192Khz/24bit recording
24 input analog mixing console
Genelec full-range monitoring
Yamaha NS10m nearfield monitors
Multi-channel headphone amplifier to provide individual monitor mixes
Beyerdynamic, Sennheiser studio headphones
Outboard:
TL Audio Indigo-series valve preamps, equalisers and compressors
Focusrite Red3 compressor/limiter (very much sought-after!)
Sony/Yamaha reverb/effects processors
Software:
Logic Pro / Pro Tools HD
UAD Plugins including Studer A800, Urei 1176, LA2a emulations
Waves Bundle
Melodyne DNA
Lots of guitar amp sims including Peavey Revalver and Amplitube
Slate Trigger drum replacement software
Microphones:
Neumann U87 large diaphragm condenser
Sony C-800G valve mic (very rare and sought-after!)
Neumann KM184 pair
Akg D12 (original vintage kick drum mic)
Large selection of other quality dynamic/condenser mics (Rode, Shure, Akg etc.)
Vintage Instruments and Amplifiers:
We have a large range of instruments and amplifiers etc that will be made available to you at request for your recording session
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